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Saturday, 23 February 2013

Weekend of fun

Last weekend gaming pals Thomas and Icke
visited for an afternoon of terrain-building. The idea was to continue our brainstorm
about what we needed for our LRDG-project, decide how to make it and then produce
(some of) it.

I started the day before by taking out all
terrain-making stuff I had lying about. Strangely enough it was a lot...

The hoard of terrain making stuff.

A box of flock, sand, clump foliage and static
grass, plastic card and –rods/-pipes and –girders, balsa and wood in all shapes
and forms, lots of branches and dried heather, plastic plants, a mould for
cliff faces I had totally forgotten, four different clays, foam-core, plastic
kits, textured paints, glues and odds and ends. I covered my table tennis
table...

Thomas brought some more plastic girders, tree
armatures and this and that.

After a short conference we started building.

Fences

Even in the desert there are some hardy trees.
Icke got green fingers...

What would you do without a fuel dump? Really,
we have an idea here... but maybe this approach isn’t the most time-efficient.

Camouflaged parking space for a plane... minus netting

Another sort of fence for western front

A totally failed attempt at a clump of high
grasses.

We half-finished a lot of terrain, had some very
good ideas and made some mistakes we (hopefully) learned from. We also had a
nice chat about everything WWII, drank a lot of coffee and coke, ate potato
crisps/chips and made a lot of plans. As a bonus two of my kids helped with
this and that, and were quite happy about it. All in all a very nice afternoon.

We’ll try to do a follow up with better
planning in the future, as this was very ad-hoc, meaning few of the gaming-gang
could show up on such very short notice.

When I finish the respective
pieces you’ll get a more in depth how-to post on each item (well, maybe not the
clump of grasses)

My rating system

5 - A masterpiece. You have to read/see/visit.4 - Really good. Strongly recommended it if it is a subject of interest, and probably worth reading/seeing/visiting if not.3 – It’s OK. If it’s a subject you’re interested in, it’s probably worth reading/seeing/visiting. Otherwise you can probably skip it.2 - Well, not really... If it’s your subject you could possibly find something in it worth your while. Otherwise stay clear.1 - Stay clear. This is a waste of your time.